The vessels, drifting together, struck on the shoal called the Nek, near Wydeness.

In the heat of the action the occurrence was hardly heeded.

In the morning twilight, John Haring, of Hoorn, the hero who had kept one thousand soldiers at bay upon the Diemer dyke, clambered on board the 'Inquisition,' and hauled her colors down.

The gallant but premature achievement cost him his life.

He was shot through the body and died on the deck of the ship, which was not quite ready to strike her flag.